Elasticsearch,
the company behind the popular real-time search and analytics open
source project, today announced that Fog Creek has selected
Elasticsearch to provide instant search capabilities within Kiln, its
software development product. Kiln is designed to support and simplify
development workflow for users searching more than 100,000 source code
repositories. Elasticsearch is now a critical ingredient of Kiln,
providing instant search for 300,000,000 requests across 40 billion
lines of code to improve overall performance, reliability and user
experience.

The Fog Creek Search Challenge

Limited Scalability: Fog Creek needed to implement a real-time search platform that could scale to terabytes of
information. The team found that other source code search platforms in
combination with SQL servers were simply not capable of handling such
high volumes of data.

Benefits of Fog Creek using Elasticsearch

Quick Implementation: After initial production
tests with Elasticsearch went flawlessly, Fog Creek migrated all of its
data to Elasticsearch, which greatly accelerated the implementation and
configuration of Kiln's features and functionality.

Instant Search: Elasticsearch's search
capabilities allow Fog Creek's Kiln users to easily index more than ten
billion lines of code in milliseconds, enabling real-time results so
users can search as fast as they can type.

Scale Easily: As Kiln users grow the volume of
their data, Elasticsearch routinely spins up new nodes so it can easily
scale to three terabytes of data.

Supporting Quotes

Fog Creek

"We asked ourselves—how should we do search in today's world? How can
we use search to make Kiln a better product? That's when we chose
Elasticsearch. We've been able to create our own instant search for our
users. Kiln searches as fast as our users can type…or as fast as they
can think. That's made search a hallmark of the Kiln experience." —
Kevin Gessner, Kiln team lead at Fog Creek Software

Elasticsearch

"Real-time search and analytics have become a critical component
within applications in a wide range of markets—from software development
to social networking—and we are excited that Fog Creek selected
Elasticsearch to dramatically raise the bar of their customer's
experience. While not every company needs massive scale today to support
their search, we make it easy and cost effective for them to plan for
it from day one."— Shay Banon, CTO and Creator of Elasticsearch

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About Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is on a mission to organize data and make it easily accessible. We deliver the world's the most advanced open source search and analytics engine available and make real-time data exploration available to anyone. By having a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, Elasticsearch has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market. Today, Elasticsearch is used by thousands of enterprises in virtually every industry. We take good care of our customers and users, providing production support, development support and training worldwide. To learn more, visit www.elasticsearch.com.